CHAPTER 3 ENERGY TRANSFORMATION Transformation can be defined as a change in the properties or state of the mind. In alchemy, transformation, or transmutation, is commonly referred to as the transformation of base metals into silver or gold. In biology, this is the name given to the transition of one species into

Anger masks many painful emotions. How do aggressive outbursts allow us to get rid of guilt, resentment, feelings of powerlessness? Is it possible to learn how to rationally manage anger?

How often do we hear a child scream (in an attempt to avoid punishment), “I didn't do it! It's all him!" Have you used this desperate tactic even in situations where your guilt is obvious? If you are like most people, you have behaved this way more often than you can remember.

While it is hardly exemplary behavior to try to avoid blame or criticism by shamelessly shifting one's responsibility onto others, projection is a common one. By protecting our ego, we end up creating more problems than we solve.

Much of our anger comes from a desire to avoid guilt - and the pain and fear that comes with it. Anger is almost never the primary emotion. It is usually based on feelings of neglect, insignificance, condemnation, distrust, rejection, powerlessness and unattractiveness. These feelings cause intense emotional pain. We are ready to go to great lengths to avoid it. Those who constantly use anger as a “cover” to hide their vulnerability behind it become such skillful actors that no one knows what is really driving their behavior.

Anger is the emotion of invulnerability. Although the feeling of self-respect (i.e., the adrenaline rush) that it immediately causes is fake, many get used to and even addicted to this method of psychological protection. The more we see others as a threat, the more we feel our own importance. This is how all psychological defense mechanisms work. They allow us to avoid upsetting, shameful, or anxious feelings that we lack the emotional resources or ego strength to overcome.

For example, your partner (intentionally or not) says something to you that makes you feel humiliated. Instead of openly admitting your hurt, at the risk of making yourself even more vulnerable, you counterattack. You seek (often unconsciously) to make the abuser feel humiliated by hurting their feelings in return. An undeclared war begins - an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. And while you are participating in punitive activities, you no longer feel humiliated, at least for the moment.

But what about those who experience your quick temper? Now on their shoulders is a burden that you just managed to shake off. Their initial reaction will be not just pain, but also fear. For at the most primitive, instinctive level, having experienced your anger, they are convinced that you want to do harm. And if they back off, it's not because they want to give you more space to express anger and indignation. They feel an urgent need to hide.

Another possible reaction to your aggression is to become defensive. But neither the attack nor the decision to leave the battlefield will help to understand what caused your anger. And this is another reason why anger - despite its ability to provide instant emotional release and relief - does not solve the problem that caused it.

Powerlessness, resentment, humiliation - and acting out these negative feelings in the form of angry attacks - are infantile reactions. Are we capable of holding a rational adult view of what goes on in our heads? Can we without turning them into anger? Are we ready to break this vicious cycle before it destroys relationships with people close to us? These are the questions everyone has to answer for themselves...

Editor's note: It is suggested that you experiment with each meditation technique or exercise for three days and see if it suits you. If you don't notice a change, or a technique doesn't suit your type, try the next one. In the beginning, we are not clear, and even though we may enjoy the exercise or meditation, it may turn out that it does not bring any benefit. Conversely, we can justify our reluctance to experiment with a technique or exercise that can bring us the greatest benefit!

You can experiment with the methods presented in this chapter in every possible way - try playing with them and find the ones that suit you.

In the main text of this book, there are indirect references to Osho's Active Meditations, techniques that Osho specifically developed for today's women and men living in a fast-paced, stressful world. These meditations are designed to help the individual become aware of and release the emotional and physical blocks and tensions that prevent them from having meditation experiences. A list of the four basic techniques, information about each technique, and directions on where to learn more about them is at the end of this section. Here is what Osho says about the knowledge underlying the meditation techniques he developed:

All the techniques I have developed basically begin with catharsis. Everything hidden must be brought to the surface. Instead of continuing to suppress your emotions, choose to express them as your path. Don't judge yourself. Accept yourself as you are, for any condemnation breeds division...

It may seem paradoxical, but those who suppress their neurosis become more and more nervous, while those who consciously express it openly get rid of it. If you don't deliberately go insane, you will never be mentally healthy. R. D. Lang, one of the most sensitive people in the West, is right. He says, "Give yourself permission to go crazy."

If you're crazy, you need to do something about it. I suggest realize This. What do ancient traditions say about this? They say, "Suppress it, don't let it go, or you'll go crazy." I suggest giving it free rein; this is the only path to sanity. You must free yourself from this. Or it will poison your life. Get rid of it, get it out of your body. Morality is the expression of emotions. You need to approach this very systematically and methodically. It's a way to deliberately go insane.

What you have to do is: be aware of everything you do and don't repress anything. This is science and it needs to be learned. Instead of suppressing emotions, express them.

There are usually three problems that hinder awareness. This is extremely important for every seeker of understanding. We all realize after the fact. You were angry - you hit your wife and you threw a pillow at your husband. Then, when you calm down, you become aware. But now you can't get anything back. You can't take back what you've done - it's too late.

You must remember three main points. First, be aware of the action at the very moment it is being performed. This is the first difficulty for a person who wants to learn to be aware. Anger is like smoke. Learning to be aware of it when it's in full swing is the first challenge - but it's possible. With a little effort, you can learn it. At first you will notice that you are aware of the moment when the anger has already gone and you have calmed down; let's say you start to be aware after fifteen minutes. If you practice, you can be aware in five minutes. Practice more and you will be aware almost immediately - after one minute. Practice more and you will be aware of how anger disappears. Practice even more and you will be aware of anger at its height. This is the first step to becoming aware of the action at the moment of its performance.

Taking the second step is more difficult, as you enter the water even deeper. The second step, or the second difficulty, is to be aware of the action before it is done - when you have not yet done the action, but you already have a thought. A thought has appeared in your mind, but has not yet been realized. It exists as a seed, as a potential; it can turn into action at any moment.

This requires a slightly more subtle level of awareness. You commit a rude act - you beat a person. You can be aware at this moment, but the thought of it is much subtler.

Thousands of thoughts pass through your mind unnoticed. Most of these endless thoughts, however, never become action. This is the difference between sin and crime. Crime is when thought becomes action. No court can punish you for a seditious thought. You can think about killing someone, but the law cannot punish you for it. You may like this idea, you may dream about it, but until you take action, until you turn the thought into reality, the law has no power over you. Only an action can be considered a crime. But religion has gone further. She considers it a sin thought. Whether you put it into action or not - it doesn't matter - you have committed a murder in the depths of your soul, you have stained yourself.

The second difficulty is to notice the moment when a thought appears. This is only possible if you have overcome the first problem, for thought is a more subtle level than action. But this is a crude enough level to be noticed; it just takes a little practice. Sit quietly and observe your thoughts. Just notice all the shades of thought - how it arises, how it takes form, how it stays for a while, how it disappears. She becomes a guest, and then when the time comes, she leaves you. Many thoughts come and go; you are the master, many thoughts come to you and leave you. Just watch it.

Do not train from the very beginning with complex thoughts, start with simple thoughts. This will make your job easier. Sit in the garden, close your eyes and notice every thought - you always have thoughts. You hear a dog barking nearby, and immediately you start thinking. You remember the dog you had as a child, how much you loved her, how she died and how you suffered. Then the thought of death comes, you forget about the dog and remember the death of your mother... then you remember your father... and so on and so forth.

And all because of a stupid dog that does not even know that you are sitting in your garden, and barks simply because he does not know what to do with himself. She doesn't know about you, she doesn't bark for you on purpose, but still your thoughts cling to one another.

Watch this, gradually train with stronger emotions. You are angry, you are jealous, you are overwhelmed by greed - just notice how this thought arises in you. This is the second step.

The third step is to notice the process itself, before it becomes a thought, eventually resulting in action. This is the hardest part; It's hard for you to even imagine now.

Thoughts always precede feeling.

These are three stages: feeling-thought-action. You may not even be aware that every thought is generated by a certain feeling.

If there is no feeling, there is no thought. Feeling is embodied in thought, thought is embodied in action.

Now you have to do the almost impossible - to notice this feeling. Has this ever happened to you before? Not knowing why, you feel a little excited; there is no thought that could cause you excitement, but you are excited. It's a kind of hidden feeling.

Sometimes you feel sad. There is no reason for it, there is no thought to make you sad; and yet you are sad. This means that this feeling is trying to come to the surface, sprouts are coming out of its seed.

If you can be aware of a thought, sooner or later you will become aware of the subtle nuances of feeling. Those were the three problems. If you succeed, you will reveal your essence.

Action is farther from essence than thought or feeling. Feelings hide your essence. This entity is universal. This essence is the goal of all who meditate. These three hurdles must be overcome. These three obstacles are like three concentric circles around the center of essence.

Find a time and a place and stay calm. This is the meaning of meditation. Find at least an hour every day to sit quietly and do nothing, just watching yourself. At first, when you look at yourself, you will become very sad - you will see only darkness and black holes. You will feel only suffering, you will not feel any delight. But if you persevere in the practice, one day the suffering will disappear and it will turn out to be delight.

You can easily understand this if you start small. If you go for a walk in the morning, enjoy the walk - the birds, the sun, the clouds, the wind. But don't forget that you are a mirror; you reflect clouds, trees, birds, people. Going out for a morning walk, remember: you are not a passer-by, you are an observer. Gradually you will get the taste. This is the subtlest phenomenon that does not tolerate haste. This is where patience is needed.

Eat, taste the food, but remember: you are the observer. It will be a little difficult at first. In the beginning, if you start watching, you stop eating, and if you start eating, you stop watching.

Our consciousness - as it is now - is unidirectional. But that can be changed: you can eat and watch at the same time. You can be in yourself and watch the confusion around; you can become the center of the cyclone.

Fear has its own beauty, refinement, sensitivity. This is a very subtle feeling. Although the word carries a negative connotation, the feeling it denotes is very positive. Only a living being can be afraid; inanimate matter, the feeling of fear is unknown. Fear is evidence of life, sophistication, sophistication. Long live fear!

Be afraid, let fear shake the foundations of your being - enjoy this deep experience of arousal.

You don't have to treat it in any special way... you shouldn't even call it fear. For the moment you do this, you form your attitude. You condemn him; you say fear is wrong. You are on your guard, you are running from him, you are separating yourself from him on a very subtle level. So don't call it fear. You have to stop labeling, that's one of the main points. Just watch the feeling as it is. Give him free rein, watch him from the side.

Dispassionate observation from the outside is a very meditative state. Be persistent, don't let your mind manipulate you. Don't let the mind use language, words, labels, categories, as it is an endless process. One, like a snowball, entails another. Just watch it - but don't call it fear.

Be afraid, tremble - it's wonderful. Hide in a corner, get under the covers and be afraid. Act like a frightened wild animal. What does a small child do when he is afraid? He is crying. Or wild man? Only in wild people, when they are seized with fear, their hair stands on end. Civilized people have already forgotten this experience; now it's just become a metaphor. We think these are just words. But it's not. This is really happening.

If you let fear get the better of you, your hair will stand on end. Then for the first time you will know what a wonderful phenomenon fear is. You will know that in this turmoil, in this cyclone, there is a point of peace where no one can disturb you. And if you cannot be disturbed by fear, you cannot be disturbed by death. Darkness and fear are all around, only a small center is completely outside. You don't try to be beyond fear - you let fear take over completely and suddenly you feel a contrast - you become aware of a point of stillness. Fear is the gateway to your humanity.

Whenever you have fear, remember: you don't have to run away from it, this is not the way to get rid of it. Dive into it. If you are afraid of the dark, go for a walk on a dark night. This is the only way to overcome your fear. This is the only way to overcome fear. Go for a walk late at night; nothing is more important to you. Sit alone, wait, the night will do the rest.

If you feel fear, be afraid. Without trying to get rid of fear, tell the night: “Do whatever you want. I'm here". You will see - you will calm down in a few minutes. Darkness will cease to be darkness and turn into light. It's an incredibly pleasant feeling. You can touch him - his music, the vastness, the thick silence. You will enjoy it, you will say: “How stupid I was that I was afraid of this wonderful experience!”

Never run from fear. Otherwise, it will create a block, and you will not be able to develop your essence in this direction. Fear is the best adviser. He tells you where you need to go. Fear is a challenge. He calls you - "Go!". You will experience fear often in your life. Take on the challenge every time, plunge into fear. Never run away from him, don't be a coward. Then one day you will discover the amazing treasures that fear hides. So you can develop in many ways.

Remember: all living things cause fear. The inanimate does not cause fear, because there is no challenge in it.

If you're scared, just relax. Acknowledge the fact that you are afraid, but do nothing. Just ignore him.

Watch your body. It shouldn't have any tension. If there is no tension in the body, fear disappears automatically. Fear creates a state of tension in the body that it could use as a support. If the body is relaxed, fear should disappear. If a person is relaxed, he cannot be afraid. You can't scare a relaxed person. Even if the feeling of fear arises, it comes and goes like a wave; it does not take root.

Fear comes and goes like a wave without touching you. It's fine. If it takes root and begins to grow, it is similar to the growth of a cancerous tumor. It destroys you from within.

Therefore, if you feel frightened, make sure that the body is not tense. Lie down on the floor and relax, relaxation is the antidote to fear. Fear will come and go. Just watch.

Watch indifferently. Take everything that happens for granted. Hot day? What can you do about it, your body sweats, but you have to endure. Evening will come soon and a cool wind will blow. Relax and just watch it. If one day you succeed - and it will soon happen - you will see that if you are relaxed, there is nothing for fear to cling to.

At night, before you fall asleep, lying in bed for five or ten minutes, try to imagine that you are dying ... do this every night. You can do this for a week, you'll like it. You will be surprised how much tension is released. Let the body die or, dying, fall asleep. And in the morning you will feel cheerful and full of energy. Energy harmonizes.

Remember, when we channel our energy into anger, it becomes alive. It is not pure energy; it depends on us. If we watch, we don't support it. After a few seconds or minutes, the energy disappears. Not finding something to cling to, not finding you, seeing that you are far away, the observer on the hill, it dissolves, disappears. And that's great. This is a very good experience.

When you see how anger disappears, you have a great calm - the calm after the storm. You will be surprised that every time anger arises and you can observe it, you will sink into a calmness that you have never known before. You will go into such deep meditation... When the anger disappears, you will feel so young, so cheerful, so innocent, as you have never known yourself before. You will even be grateful to anger; you won't be mad at him because it gave you a wonderful new space to live in, a whole new experience. You used it, you turned it into a means to an end.

This is an example of the creative use of negative emotions.

When you are angry, there is no need to be angry with someone; just get mad. Let it become meditation. Lock yourself in a room alone; let all your anger rise out. If you want to beat someone, beat the pillow...

Do whatever you want; the pillow won't mind. If you want to kill her, take a knife and kill her. This will help. We have no idea how useful a pillow can be. Beat her, throw her away. If someone in particular makes you angry, write their name on the pillow or glue their photo to it.

Turn your anger into meditation and then see what happens. You will feel anger emanating from your entire body. If you do not suppress it, it will fill every cell of your body. Anger will fill every pore of your body. Your whole body will go crazy.

Don't interfere with it.

You will feel foolish and ridiculous - anger is ridiculous; you can't do anything about it. Therefore, leave everything as it is and enjoy anger as an energy manifestation. For anger is a manifestation of energy. If you're not hurting anyone, there's nothing wrong with him. If you practice this, thoughts of harming someone will soon disappear. You can practice this every day - say twenty minutes every morning.

Watch yourself throughout the day. Since you have got rid of the energy that has found an outlet in the form of anger, you will become calmer; the energy that has become poison is removed from the body. Do this for at least two weeks - and after a week you will be surprised: you will no longer feel angry, no matter what situation arises.

Close yourself in a room, think about the experience of anger when you went crazy. Remember it, relive it. It's simple. Relive it in memory, relive it again. Don't just remember revive it in memory. Remember how you were insulted, what was your reaction. Play this situation again.

Your mind is like a tape recorder, and this incident was also recorded in it. You can experience the same feeling. Your eyes will bleed, you will start to have a fever, you will experience it all again - you must not only remember, you must feel it again. This will give the mind the right signal, you will return to this incident and relive it. But you mustn't lose your temper.

Start from the past - it's easy, because this is a game, this situation is no more. If you can do it, you can do it in a real situation where anger arises. Such a resurrection of individual events from the past is very useful.

Everyone has unhealed wounds. By reliving those hurts, you release the burden. If you can go back to the past and complete what has not been completed, you will get rid of the burden of the past, your mind will be refreshed - it will get rid of rubbish.

Everything that has not been completed hangs over your mind like a cloud. It affects you and what you do. This cloud needs to be dispelled. Go back to the past and resurrect unfulfilled desires, relive the grievances that still hurt you. So you can get rid of them. You will become more whole. Learn to remain calm in difficult situations.

There is a special method in Buddhism that Buddhists call "notice thrice". If a problem arises - for example, if someone suddenly feels angry, jealous or greedy - they note it three times. If anger arises, the student should say to himself three times: "Anger... Anger... Anger." Just to focus on it and not lose awareness. After that, he again returns to his studies. He does nothing with anger, except that he simply marks it three times.

Truly amazing! As soon as you become aware, notice the anxiety, it disappears. It cannot take over you, for it can only happen if you have lost awareness. This method makes you so aware that it separates you from anger. He is there and you are here. The Buddha advised to do this with everything.

Start running in the morning. Starting with half a mile, then a mile; run three miles at the end. Engage your entire body while running. No need to run like you're wearing a straitjacket. Run like a child using your whole body - arms and legs. Breathing is deep, belly. Then sit under a tree, catch your breath, let a cool breeze blow over you; feel peace. This is extremely helpful.

The muscles are relaxed. If you like swimming, you can swim. This is useful. But you also need to put your all into it. Any activity in which you can be fully involved will be useful. It is not a matter of anger or any other emotion. The main thing is to be fully involved; then you can experience both anger and love. He who knows what it means to give his whole self can apply it to everything; what it concerns is completely irrelevant.

Working with anger directly is difficult because it is hidden deep in the subconscious. Therefore, you must act indirectly. Running will help get rid of anger and fear. When you run for a long time and breathe deeply, the mind ceases to function, the body comes into its own. Sit for a few minutes in the shade of a tree, enjoy the cool breeze. There are no thoughts in the mind. You are the body within which the heart beats; an organism that is in harmony with nature; you are like an animal.

Within three weeks you will feel profound changes. As soon as the anger disappears, relaxes, you will feel free.

Someone offended you - anger boils up in you in an instant. Anger is directed at the person who offended you. You take out your anger on the other person. He didn't do anything to you. If he offended you - what did he do? He hurt you, he helped your anger rise to the surface - but this your anger.

The source of anger is not the other person, but yourself. The other person only hurts you. But if you don't have anger inside, it cannot come out. If you hurt the Buddha, he will only show compassion. He will not react with anger, because he simply does not know him. If you throw a bucket into an empty well, you won't get anything. If you throw a bucket into a full well, you will pull out a bucket full of water. But it's well water. With the help of a bucket, you just get it. So the one who offends you just throws a bucket at you, and then the bucket comes back full of anger, hatred, fire inside you. Don't forget: you are just a source.

Remember: you are the source of everything that you project onto other people. Regardless of the pros and cons, look inside yourself, turn to the source of hatred. Stay focused, don't focus on the object. The other person is giving you a chance to recognize your own anger - thank them right away and forget about it. Close your eyes, look inside yourself, turn to the source where love and anger come from. Get inside yourself. You will discover the source from which anger comes.

Both love and hate all come from your source. At the moment when you feel a feeling of anger, love or hate, it is easy to turn to the source. Since these are strong emotions, it is easy to find their source. You can call on him using their power. When you reach a point of rest, another dimension opens up before you, another world. Use love for it, use hate for it, use anger for it.

Lin Qi, one of the greatest Zen masters, said: “When I was young, I loved to go boating. I had a small boat, I sailed on the lake alone. This could take several hours.

One day it was a beautiful night, I was meditating in a boat with my eyes closed. But the boat that was being carried downstream hit my boat. My eyes were closed, I thought, "Someone in this boat hit my boat." I got very angry. I opened my eyes and was about to say something in anger to this man, when I suddenly realized that the boat was empty! I couldn't vent my anger. Who could I pour it on? The boat was empty, carried by the current and washed up against my boat. What could I do? I couldn't be angry at an empty boat."

Lin Qi continued, “I closed my eyes again. I was still angry - not knowing what to do, I closed my eyes and went back in thought. This empty boat helped me understand. That silent night I realized the essence, she became my teacher. Now, if someone insults me, I laugh and say, "This boat is also empty." And I close my eyes and go into myself.

Editor's note: As Osho mentions in his earlier books, much of our sadness and depression is due to repressed anger. As we experiment with the methods in the previous section, we work with them in a natural way. This section introduces you to a few more methods.

Try the following when you are happy: When you are sitting and doing nothing, relax your lower jaw and open your mouth slightly. Breathe through your mouth, but not deeply. Your body seems to become empty. When you feel that your breathing has become very shallow, your mouth has opened, your jaw has relaxed, you will also feel how your body has relaxed.

At this moment, begin to feel a smile - not on your face, but on your entire inner being. This is not a smile that appears on the lips, this is an existential inner smile.

Try it tonight to find out what it is, because it's impossible to explain. No need to stretch your lips in a smile; it's like you're smiling from your stomach. It's a smile, it's not a laugh. It is light, thin, tender - as if a small rosebud has blossomed in your stomach and its aroma filled your whole body.

Once you know what it is, you can be happy twenty-four hours a day. If you do not have enough happiness, close your eyes, remember this smile, and this feeling will return to you. You can think about it as much as you like in the daytime. She is always with you.

One Sufi mystic lived happily all his life - no one has ever seen him be sad - he was always laughing, his whole life was filled with the aroma of the holiday. When he was dying - on his deathbed he was still laughing merrily - the student asked: “You surprise us. You are still laughing - how do you do it?

The old man said, “It's very simple. I came to my teacher when I was quite young. I was only seventeen years old, and I was already unhappy. And my seventy-year-old teacher was sitting under a tree and laughing for no reason. Nothing happened, there was no one around to make him laugh. He laughed while holding his stomach. I asked him: “What is wrong with you? You are crazy?"

And he said, “Once I was as sad as you. But then I realized: this is my choice, this is my life. From that day on, every morning when I wake up, the first thing I do ... before I open my eyes, I say to myself: “Abdullah - that was his name - what do you want? Suffering? Happiness? What are you choosing for yourself today? And I always choose happiness."

Sit quietly, imagine that your insides are laughing, your whole body is laughing, laughing. Start rocking in a fit of laughter; let the laughter spread from the stomach to the whole body - the hands laugh, the legs laugh. Get lost in it. Laugh like that for twenty minutes. If you laugh out loud, it's not scary. Sometimes you laugh out loud - sometimes quietly. You have to laugh for twenty minutes. Then lie down on the ground or on the floor; lie on your stomach, stretch out on the floor. If the weather is warm, it is best to do this on the ground in the garden. It's even better if you can strip naked. Lie with your whole body on the ground, feel that the earth is your mother. Lose yourself completely in this feeling.

Twenty minutes of laughter, then twenty minutes of deep communion with the earth. Breathe with the earth with one breath, become one with the earth. We came from the earth and one day we will go to it. Twenty minutes saturate with the energy of the earth - for the earth will give you so much energy that your dance will acquire a different quality - then dance for twenty minutes. It can be any dance. Turn on the music and dance.

If this is difficult, if the weather is cold or you don't have private outdoor space, you can do the same in your room. But it is better to do it outdoors. If the weather is cold, cover yourself with a woolen blanket. Look for different means and ways, but keep going. After six to eight months of such studies, you will notice significant changes.

Be as bad for forty minutes as possible. Lock yourself up, throw pillows around the room. Turn off your phone, tell everyone not to be disturbed for an hour. Hang a note on the door so that you won't be disturbed for an hour. Create a dark atmosphere. Put on depressing music, feel like dying. Sit down and feel bad. Repeat "no" like a mantra.

Imagine scenes from the past - when you felt depressed, did not want to live and thought about suicide - embellish them. Recreate this situation. Your mind will interfere with you. He will say: “What are you doing? The night is so beautiful, the full moon is in the sky!” Don't listen to the mind. Tell the mind to come back later, because now you have completely devoted yourself to all the bad things. Cry, cry, scream, yell, swear, do whatever you want. But remember one thing - you don't have to be happy. Don't leave happiness the slightest chance. If you catch yourself on the contrary, immediately give yourself a kick! Come back, start hitting the pillows, fight them. Be disgusting! You will find that being bad for forty minutes is very difficult.

This is one of the basic laws of the mind - if you try to do something bad consciously, you will not succeed. But you don't care doing- and if you do it consciously, you feel separation. You do it, but you are an observer; you do not go into this action with your head. There is a distance, and it's wonderful.

After forty minutes, emerge sharply from this. Throw the pillows aside, turn on the lights, put on beautiful music, and just dance for twenty minutes. Say yes! Yes! Yes!" Let this be your mantra. Then take a good shower. This will help you get rid of everything negative and allow you to adopt a positive attitude towards everything.

If you often get angry, do the opposite to get rid of the addiction. If you get rid of an addiction, energy is released. If you don't use this energy, the habit comes back again; otherwise, where can this energy disappear to? So always do something exactly the opposite.

If you're sad, try to cheer yourself up. It's difficult because the familiar path is the path of least resistance. It's easier to follow. And to cheer yourself up, you need to make an effort. You must consciously give battle to the dead habits of your mind. That is, you will need to reprogram it. Create a new habit of being cheerful and happy.

If you don't create a new habit of being happy, the old habit will return. For energy needs an outlet, you cannot deprive it of this. You'll just die, you'll suffocate. If the energy does not become love, it turns sour, bitter and turns into sadness and anger. Sadness, like anger or unhappiness, is not a problem. The problem is not to get back on track again.

So live a little more consciously. And if you find yourself reverting to old habits, immediately do something exactly the opposite. Don't wait a single second! It's easy - you just need to know how to do it. It just needs to be done.

Anything. You can start dancing or go for a long walk. And it's okay that at first your dance will be a little sad. It's okay - you're sad, how can you immediately cheer up? Start dancing in a sad mood, sadness will go away - you have brought something new to your sadness. Before, when you were unhappy or sad, you never danced. You've messed up your mind. Because he only operates on the known, he doesn't know what to think. Something new appears, and the mind is no longer effective.

We are all experts when it comes to sadness, anger, unhappiness. You are afraid of losing this actionable experience.

Feel sad - dance. Or stand in the shower and watch the sadness leave your body. Feel how water washes away sadness, just like it washes away dirt and sweat. And see what happens.

If you are suffering from jealousy, watch how it appears - how it takes possession of you, surrounds you, clouds your mind, tries to manipulate you. How it pushes you down a path you never wanted to follow, how it creates a huge feeling of frustration in you, how it destroys your energy, how it plunges you into a state of depression. Just watch it happen.

Just observe everything as it is - without judgment, without acceptance, without judgments "for" or "against". You are an independent witness. You must have a very scientific approach to observation.

One of the most important contributions of science is nonjudgmental observation. The scientist experiments without conclusions or judgments. If he already has some idea in his mind, he is not a scientist; this idea will affect the outcome of the experiment.

You are a scientist in your inner world, your mind is your laboratory. Remember - observe without judgment. Don't say, "Jealousy is bad." How to know? You heard it, but that's what other people said. This is not your experience. You have to have an existential, empirical approach. If you haven't proven it experimentally, you shouldn't say "yes" or "no". Judgment must be completely abandoned. And then watch jealousy as a miracle.

To determine exactly what it is, you do not make a decision in advance. What is this jealousy? What is this energy called jealousy? Watch it as if you were watching a rose flower - just watch it. If you don't have an idea, you are not conditioned. Clarity is gained only by those who have no idea. Watch it and it will become transparent to you, you will understand that it is all nonsense. If you realize that jealousy is stupidity, it will disappear on its own. You don't have to do anything.

Have sex, there's nothing wrong with that, but be a witness. Watch every movement of the body; watch the play of energy as it goes down; watch the orgasm, watch what happens - how two bodies move in the same rhythm. Watch how your heart beats - it beats harder, there comes a moment when it beats like crazy. Observe the warmth of the body; blood circulates more. Watch the breath; it becomes frenzied and chaotic. Watch at what point you start behaving unconsciously. Watch from what point you can't go back. The body acts so mechanically that you lose control. The moment before you ejaculate, you completely lose control and your body takes over.

Watch how the unconscious process replaces the conscious process. The moment when you controlled the process and from which you could go back, replaces the moment after which you cannot go back - the body took its toll, you lost control. Watch everything and you will notice a million nuances. There is nothing more complicated than sex - the body and mind are fully involved in it. Only the observer is not involved.

The witness always remains on the other side. But that is his nature. If you find this, you are standing on the top of the hill, and then everything that happens in the valley does not bother you. You are just watching; what do you care about? Everything seems to be happening not to you.

If you have sexual desire, you have three ways. The first is to satisfy him - this is the usual order of things, everyone does it. The second way is to suppress it, push it out of the conscious into the darkness of the subconscious, throw it into the basement of your life. This is what your so-called eminent people do - mahatmas, monks. Both paths are directed against nature, the inner science of transformation.

The third way - a rare minority decides to try to step on it - close their eyes when sexual desire arises. This is a very important point: the appearance of desire is a manifestation of energy. It's like sunrise. Close your eyes; this is a good moment to contemplate. Lower your attention to the sex center where you feel vibration, pleasure, excitement. You are the silent witness, you observe but do not judge. Once you start judging, you get distracted. In the same way, as soon as you focus on experiencing pleasure, you slip into the unconscious. Be alert and mindful, you just hold your awareness firmly. You observe your sexual center - what kind of energy is concentrated in this center?

Do not hang labels, words only spoil everything. Even if you call it "sex", you immediately begin to condemn it. The word itself has a condemning connotation. Or, if you belong to another generation, this word has become sacred to you. One way or another, it is always associated with emotion. And any word with which an emotion is associated becomes an obstacle to awareness.

So don't define it, just watch how the energy is concentrated around the sex center. Excitement arises - watch it. Watching it, you will feel a completely new quality of energy, you will see how it rises; she paves the way for you. When it starts to rise up, you will feel how peace descends on you, how blessing and grace surrounds you. And there is no more pain.

It works very gently, like a balm. The stronger the awareness, the higher the energy will rise. If it can rise to the heart, which is not very difficult - it is difficult, but not very difficult - if you remain alert, you will see that it has risen to the heart, you will know for the first time what love is.

If someone offends you, be grateful to him for giving you the opportunity to feel a deep offense. He opened that wound in you. It can be caused by many hurts that you have experienced. The other person may not be the cause of the suffering, but the process is already running. Close the door to the room, sit quietly, not feeling anger towards this person, but fully aware of the feeling that arises in you - the feeling of resentment that you were rejected, that you were insulted. You will be surprised that not only this person will appear in your memory: all the men and women who have ever offended you will appear before your mind's eye.

You will not only begin to remember them, you will begin to free yourself from them, you will return to the past. Feel the hurt, feel the pain, don't avoid them. This is why in many therapies the patient is told not to take any medication during therapy. The reason is simple - drugs are a way to escape from suffering.

Do not try to get rid of suffering and pain. First experience them in their entirety. It's difficult - you can start crying like a baby, you can start rolling on the ground, you can start to have seizures. You can suddenly realize that from the heart the pain has spread throughout the body - that everything hurts in you, that your whole body is a continuous pain.

If you can survive it - and this is very important - start it accept. Don't give it up. This is a very precious energy, don't give it up. Devour it, drink it, receive it, call it, be grateful to it. Say to yourself, “This time I will not avoid it, this time I will not reject it, this time I will not reject it. I will drink it, I will receive it as a guest. This time, I'll take it."

It may take a few days, but when it does, you will stumble upon a door that will take you very far. You have embarked on a new path leading to a new kind of essence - for as soon as you stop rejecting pain and accept it, its energy and quality change. It's not pain anymore. You're surprised, you can't believe it. It's incredible - you can't believe that suffering can be transformed into delight, that pain can become pleasure.

Sadness is the same energy that can become happiness. If you don't see your happiness blossoming, you feel sad. You are sad if you see that someone else is happy; you think, “why isn’t this happening to me?” It can happen to you too! There is no problem here. To do this, you must stop being conditioned by your past. For this to happen, you need to make a little effort to open yourself up.

Start your meditation late in the evening. Imagine that you are not human. You can choose any animal. If you like a cat, let it be a cat. Like a dog - let it be a dog ... or a tiger; it can be any animal you like, male or female.

Choose an animal and become it. Move around the room exclusively on all fours, become this animal. Fifteen minutes enjoy this fantasy. If you are a dog, bark and do whatever a dog usually does. Let it give you pleasure! And do not control anything, because the dog cannot control. The dog is absolutely free, she does everything that comes into her head. Don't bring a human element of control into this, you're a dog and that's it. Fifteen minutes wander around the room, barking, jumping.

Continue like this for seven days. It will help - you need animal energy. You are too civilized, and it bothers you. It will paralyze you. It's good in small doses, but dangerous in large doses. Man must be able to be an animal. If you learn to be wild even a little, your problems will start to disappear.

So for a few days, just do the same thing: when you feel unhappy, slowly go into it; make slow movements - let's say movements tai chi.

If you are sad, close your eyes, let the eyelid move very slowly. Slowly delve into it, observe everything that is happening around. You are so slow that you can see every fiber of the fabric.

For a few days, do slow movements, in general, do everything slowly. For example, walk more slowly than usual from the moment you slowed down your pace. Also, eat slowly… chew your food thoroughly. If it usually takes you twenty minutes to eat, bring that time up to forty minutes; slow this process down by half. If you open your eyes quickly, do it slowly. Also take a shower twice as slow as usual; and so it is with everything.

Then your body also automatically slows down. This is one and the same mechanism - you get angry, talk or walk. These are not different mechanisms; it is the same organic mechanism. By slowing down your pace in everything, you will be surprised: including your suffering and sorrow will slow down.

The Buddha used this approach for his disciples and himself. He suggested walking slowly, talking, making each movement so slowly, as if you had no energy. An amazing thing happens: your thoughts, desires, old habits slow down. Continue like this for three weeks.

Below is a list of the most commonly used Osho active meditations with a short description. Each meditation technique is accompanied by special music composed under the guidance of Osho to systematize and support each stage of the process.

Osho Dynamic Meditation- meditation, consisting of five stages. It begins with deep, chaotic breathing with the stomach. Accompanied by catharsis, energy release, as well as feelings of peace, focus, celebration. One of the most physically challenging as well as emotionally cleansing Osho Active Meditations. It's best to do it first thing as soon as you wake up.

Osho Kundalini Meditation. "Sister" meditation in relation to Dynamic meditation. This technique is usually performed in the late afternoon or early evening. Allows you to shake things up, easily and naturally - in dance - to get rid of stress and tension. It ends with a period of silent observation.

Meditation by Osho Nataraja. Absolutely relaxed dance for forty-five minutes in peace and quiet.

Meditation by Osho Nadabrahma. Based on an ancient Tibetan method, this technique begins with a hum. Gently opens all the energy centers in the body, accompanied by graceful, slow hand movements, culminating in a period of silence. Promotes focus, healing, relaxation.

For more information, as well as a description of the techniques, including a demonstration of a video of the different stages, see